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Hello, My name is Simon, Aged 34. I'm a musician and budding Author from Cardiff, South Wales. I enjoy all kinds of music but particularly Electronic Music and Rock Music. I'm currently writing A Science Fiction novel and hope I can subsidise my income from writing eventually. I'm a gay man but currently single. I enjoy Beer, Wine, Buddhism, Left-Wing Politics and i have a keen interest in Science and Technology. Hope I can contribute to this forum.

I've been receiving a newsletter from Shelf Awareness Blog for a while now, and it's consistently interesting. So, here is the link. http://www.shelf-awareness.com/#&panel1-1

I wasn't sure if this should be in General Book Discussion or General Chat, since it can be about books but doesn't have to be. I like to read people's blogs and while I know there are a few of you who have a link in their signature, I thought it might be nice to make a topic about it. I follow a few book blogs, also from some people here. Anyone has a blog that may be interesting to read (that I don't already follow)? I have a blog but I haven't posted on it in a while. It wasn't just about books, it was also about my university work and other things. Not many people actually seemed interested (my family is usually too busy to read it for example) so after a while I kind of felt like I was writing for myself and why would I need a blog to do that, I mean I don't necessarily need to put my thoughts online then. I enjoyed it though at the time. I could always start writing on it again.. hmm. I do like to write. I quite like that here on this forum we can all have our own book topic and write our reviews there, that's really quite nice . On occasion I watch some YouTube videos (book vlogging I guess?) about books, where people talk about the books they read or purchased, and show them. There aren't many channels I watch regularly. To be honest, due to my condition I can't watch as many videos as I'd like since it's too tiring. I was wondering if there's anyone here who does something like this too (or am I the only one watching YouTube videos about books)? The thing is that most of them that I find (ie. by searching 'books' or something through YouTube (or book haul, book shelf tour)) seem to be younger people reading Young-Adult (often Paranormal) books. I've found a few though that read more adult books and whose videos are interesting. Not that there's anything wrong with Young-Adult or Paranormal, but I think there are many other great books out there too.